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[Illustration: “She lighted a potent pipe.”] SUBURBAN SKETCHES BY W. D. HOWELLS AUTHOR OF “VENETIAN LIFE,” “ITALIAN JOURNEYS” ETC. CONTENTS MRS. JOHNSON DOORSTEP ACQUAINTANCE A PEDESTRIAN TOUR BY HORSE-CAR TO BOSTON A DAY’S PLEASURE A ROMANCE OF REAL LIFE SCENE JUBILEE DAYS SOME LESSONS FROM THE SCHOOL OF MORALS FLITTING LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. SHE LIGHTED A POTENT PIPE “BUT I SUPPOSE THIS WINE IS NOT MADE OF GRAPES, SIGNOR?” LOOKING ABOUT, I SAW TWO WOMEN THE YOUNG LADY IN BLACK, WHO ALIGHTED AT A MOST ORDINARY LITTLE STREET THAT SWEET YOUNG BLONDE, WHO ARRIVES BY MOST TRAINS FRANK AND LUCY STALKED AHEAD, WITH SHAWLS DRAGGING FROM THEIR ARMS THEY SKIRMISH ABOUT HIM WITH EVERY SORT OF QUERY....

THAT FORTUNE By Charles Dudley Warner On a summer day, long gone among the summer days that come but to go, a lad of twelve years was idly and recklessly swinging in the top of a tall hickory, the advance picket of a mountain forest. The tree was on the edge of a steep declivity of rocky pasture-land that fell rapidly down to the stately chestnuts, to the orchard, to the cornfields in the narrow valley, and the maples on the bank of the amber river, whose loud, unceasing murmur came to the lad on his aerial perch like the voice of some tradition of nature that he could not understand....

THE ADVENTURES OF HARRY RICHMOND By George Meredith BOOK 5. XXXIII. WHAT CAME OF A SHILLINGXXXIV. I GAIN A PERCEPTION OF PRINCELY STATE XXXV. THE SCENE IN THE LAKE-PALACE LIBRARY XXXVI. HOMEWARD AND HOME AGAIN.XXXVII. JANET RENOUNCES MEXXXVIII. MY BANKERS’ BOOK. CHAPTER XXXIII WHAT CAME OF A SHILLING The surgeon, who attended us both, loudly admired our mutual delicacy in sparing arteries and vital organs: but a bullet cuts a rougher pathway than the neat steel blade, and I was prostrate when the prince came to press my hand on his departure for his quarters at Laibach....

Prepared by Richard D. Hathaway Proofread by Julia P. DeRanek Volume I Preface Nothing is more easy than to state the subject of “The Ambassadors,” which first appeared in twelve numbers of The North American Review (1903) and was published as a whole the same year. The situation involved is gathered up betimes, that is in the second chapter of Book Fifth, for the reader’s benefit, into as few words as possible– planted or “sunk,” stiffly and saliently, in the centre of the current, almost perhaps to the obstruction of traffic....

[Illustration: W.J. Stillman] THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A JOURNALIST WILLIAM JAMES STILLMAN IN TWO VOLUMES VOLUME I 1901 PREFACE That a man should assume that his life is worth the venture of a record in the form of an autobiography suggests a degree of self-conceit of which I am not guilty. From my own initiative this would never have been written, and the first suggestion that I should write it, coming from a man of such experience in books and judgment of men as the late Mr....

Faith Knowlesfaith@wile.thetech.org The Ballad of Reading Gaol I. He did not wear his scarlet coat, For blood and wine are red,And blood and wine were on his hands When they found him with the dead,The poor dead woman whom he loved, And murdered in her bed. He walked amongst the Trial Men In a suit of shabby grey;A cricket cap was on his head, And his step seemed light and gay; But I never saw a man who looked So wistfully at the day....

THE BEDFORD-ROW CONSPIRACY Contents. I. Of the loves of Mr. Perkins and Miss Gorgon, and of the two great factions in the town of Oldborough. II. Shows how the plot began to thicken in or about Bedford Row. III. Behind the scenes. Footnote: A story of Charles de Bernard furnished the plot of “The Bedford-Row Conspiracy.” THE BEDFORD-ROW CONSPIRACY CHAPTER I. OF THE LOVES OF MR. PERKINS AND MISS GORGON, AND OF THE TWO GREAT FACTIONS IN THE TOWN OF OLDBOROUGH....

THE BLUE FAIRY BOOK CONTENTS THE BRONZE RINGPRINCE HYACINTH AND THE DEAR LITTLE PRINCESS EAST OF THE SUN AND WEST OF THE MOONTHE YELLOW DWARFLITTLE RED RIDING-HOODTHE SLEEPING BEAUTY IN THE WOODCINDERELLA; OR, THE LITTLE GLASS SLIPPER ALADDIN AND THE WONDERFUL LAMPTHE TALE OF A YOUTH WHO SET OUT TO LEARN WHAT FEAR WAS RUMPELSTILTZKINBEAUTY AND THE BEASTTHE MASTER-MAIDWHY THE SEA IS SALTTHE MASTER CAT; OR, PUSS IN BOOTSFELICIA AND THE POT OF PINKSTHE WHITE CATTHE WATER-LILY....

by Edward A. Malone University of Missouri-Rolla Born on April 9, 1863, in Kingstown, Ireland, Henry de Vere Stacpoole grew up in a household dominated by his mother and three older sisters. William C. Stacpoole, a doctor of divinity from Trinity College and headmaster of Kingstown school, died some time before his son’s eighth birthday, leaving the responsibility of supporting the family to his Canadian-born wife, Charlotte Augusta Mountjoy Stacpoole....

Table of Contents Life of TheseusLife of RomulusComparison of Theseus and RomulusLife of LycurgusLife of SolonLife of ThemistoclesLife of CamillusLife of PericlesLife of DemosthenesLife of CiceroComparison of Demosthenes and Cicero Life of AlcibiadesLife of CoriolanusComparison of Alcibiades and Coriolanus Life of AristidesLife of CimonLife of PompeyThe Engines of Archimedes; from the Life of Marcellus Description of Cleopatra; from the Life of Antony Anecdotes from the Life of AgesilausThe Brothers; from the Life of Timoleon The Wound of PhilopoemenA Roman Triumph; from the Life of Paulus Aemilius The Noble Character of Caius Fabricius; from the Life of Pyrrhus From the Life of Quintus Fabius MaximusThe Cruelty of Lucius Cornelius Sylla The Luxury of LucullusFrom the Life of Sertorius the Roman, who endeavored to establish a separate Government for himself in Spain The Scroll; from the Life of LysanderThe Character of Marcus CatoThe Sacred Theban Band; from the Life of Pelopidas From the Life of Titus Flamininus, Conqueror of Philip Life of Alexander the GreatThe Death of Caesar Theseus As geographers crowd into the edges of their maps parts of the world which they do not know about, adding notes in the margin to the effect that beyond this lies nothing but sandy deserts full of wild beasts, unapproachable bogs, Seythian ice, or frozen sea, so, in this great work of mine, in which I have compared the lives of the greatest men with one another, after passing through those periods which probable reasoning can reach to and real history find a footing in, I might very well say of those that are farther off, Beyond this there is nothing but prodigies and fictions; the only inhabitants are the poets and inventors of fables; there is no credit, or certainty any farther....

THE BROTHERHOOD OF CONSOLATION BY HONORE DE BALZAC Translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley FIRST EPISODE MADAME DE LA CHANTERIE I THE MALADY OF THE AGE On a fine evening in the month of September, 1836, a man about thirty years of age was leaning on the parapet of that quay from which a spectator can look up the Seine from the Jardin des Plantes to Notre-Dame, and down, along the vast perspective of the river, to the Louvre....

[Note on text: Italicized words or phrases are capitalized. Some obvious errors have been corrected. This etext is transcribed from the 1894 edition published in New York.] The Burial of the Gunsby Thomas Nelson Page To My Wife Contents My Cousin FannyThe Burial of the GunsThe Gray Jacket of “No. 4”Miss Dangerlie’s RosesHow the Captain made ChristmasLittle Darby My Cousin Fanny We do not keep Christmas now as we used to do in old Hanover....

SCENE:Vienna ACT I. SCENE I.The DUKE’S palace Enter DUKE, ESCALUS, LORDS, and ATTENDANTS DUKE. Escalus! ESCALUS. My lord. DUKE. Of government the properties to unfold Would seem in me t’ affect speech and discourse, Since I am put to know that your own science Exceeds, in that, the lists of all advice My strength can give you; then no more remains But that to your sufficiency- as your worth is able- And let them work....

[NOTE: There is a short list of bookmarks, or pointers, at the end of the file for those who may wish to sample the author’s ideas before making an entire meal of them. D.W.] THE CONFESSIONS OF JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU (In 12 books) Privately Printed for the Members of the Aldus Society London, 1903 BOOK I. CONTENTS: Introduction–S.W. Orson Book I. INTRODUCTION. Among the notable books of later times-we may say, without exaggeration, of all time–must be reckoned The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau....

Scanned and proofed by David Price, email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk Contents The Culprit FayTo a FriendLeonNiagaraSongSongLines written in a Lady’s AlbumLines to a LadyLines on leaving New RochelleHopeFragmentTo –LinesTo EvaTo a Lady with a VioletBronxSongTo SarahThe American Flag THE CULPRIT FAY. “My visual orbs are purged from film, and lo! “Instead of Anster’s turnip-bearing vales “I see old fairy land’s miraculous show! “Her trees of tinsel kissed by freakish gales, “Her Ouphs that, cloaked in leaf-gold, skim the breeze, “And fairies, swarming —– “ TENNANT’S ANSTER FAIR....

THE DISCOVERY OF GUIANA By Sir Walter Raleigh INTRODUCTORY NOTE Sir Walter Raleigh may be taken as the great typical figure of the age of Elizabeth. Courtier and statesman, soldier and sailor, scientist and man of letters, he engaged in almost all the main lines of public activity in his time, and was distinguished in them all. His father was a Devonshire gentleman of property, connected with many of the distinguished families of the south of England....

NOTA BENE In Person I solicit no subscription–in writing I hereby ask no favour from my reader. A book must stand or fall by the truth contained in it. What I wish to note is this: I was taught the English language by the Very Reverend W. Vincent Eyre, Vice Rector of the English College, Rome. It has cost me immense pains to rear my English up to the mark; but I could never master the language to perfection....

by Anna Katherine Green CONTENTS BOOK I CHAPTER I “THE MOORE HOUSE?”II I ENTERIII I REMAINIV SIGNED, VERONICAV MASTER AND DOGVI GOSSIPVII SLY WORKVIII SLYER WORKIX JINNYX FRANCIS JEFFREY BOOK II XI DETAILSXII THRUST AND PARRYX1II CHIEFLY THRUSTXIV “LET US HAVE TALLMAN!”XV WHITE BOW AND PINKXVI AN EGOTIST OF THE FIRST WATERXVII A FRESH STARTXVIII IN THE GRASS BOOK III XIX IN TAMPAXX “THE COLONEL’S OWN”XXI THE HEART OF THE PUZZLEXXII A THREAD IN HANDXXIII WORDS IN THE NIGHTXXIV TANTALIZING TACTICSXXV “WHO WILL TELL THE MAN!...

THE GATHERING OF BROTHER HILARIUS PART I–THE SEED CHAPTER I–BLIND EYES IN THE FOREST Hilarius stood at the Monastery gate, looking away down the smooth, well-kept road to the highway beyond. It lay quiet and serene in the June sunshine, the white way to the outer world, and not even a dust cloud on the horizon promised the approach of the train of sumpter mules laden with meats for the bellies and cloth for the backs of the good Brethren within....

THE HONOR OF THE BIG SNOWS By JAMES OLIVER CURWOOD Author of “The Danger Trail,” “The Courage of Captain Plum,” etc. NEW YORK 1911 CHAPTER I THE MUSIC “Listen, John–I hear music–“ The words came in a gentle whisper from the woman’s lips. One white, thin hand lifted itself weakly to the rough face of the man who was kneeling beside her bed, and the great dark eyes from which he had hidden his own grew luminously bright for a moment, as she whispered again: “John–I hear–music–“ A sigh fluttered from her lips....